Year 1: Gallery
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:42am
We had lots of activities set up in the Blue Room this week to help us practise our gross motor and fine motor skills.
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:40am
During our PD lesson, we thought about what to do when we were feeling angry. We discussed what happens to our bodies when we feel angry and what the best way to react to this is. We practised some mindfulness including breathing and tracing around shapes with our finger. We also explored the activities available to us on the self regulation station in class.
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:38am
During our netball lessons, we practised a bounce pass. The aim was for the ball to only bounce once and for our partner to be able to catch it. We practised the correct position to hold the ball and how to hold our hands to make sure we could catch it.
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:54am
We read to the end of our text 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We freeze framed the most important sections of the story. Then, we ordered the story and retold it to our partner.
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:52am
The children in Year 1 really enjoyed playing Picnic on Pluto on Phonics Play! They had to read a word and work out if it was a real word or a silly word. The alien called Bob ate the real words and the alien called Obb ate the silly words. The really made us giggle when Bob would burp after eating! You can play this game too on https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk and it will really support the children with their phonics development!
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:49am
This week in the Blue Room, Year 1 have been working extremely hard! We have been using play dough to improve our fine motor skills by making things that the animals on our play dough mats were missing. We have been practising our long legged giraffe letters using rainbow writing on huge pieces of paper! We have been continuing to practise our number bonds to five and saying one less than a number to 10. We loved creating alien names for the new aliens in the room and using our phonics to sound it out - some of the names really made us laugh!
Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 2:50pm
Some of the children from St Basil's enjoyed a visit from the Book Bus today! They took back books we had borrowed in the past and exchanged them for new books they wanted to read! Thank you to ELS Cheshire for visiting us!
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 2:03pm
Today, we explored our likes and dislikes and found that we all have different ones. Some of us loved apples and some of us loved chocolate. Some of us liked polar bears and some of us disliked polar bears. We said that that was ok!
Florence said, "Jennifer doesn't like junk food and I do. That is ok, we are still friends."
Luca said, "Koby doesn't like rabbits and I do but that's ok, we're still friends."
Bodhi said, "Aurora doesn't like candy but I do. That's ok though, we are still friends."
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:57pm
This week, we explored The Lord's Prayer. We used watercolours to create our own paper chain of the prayer to have and say at home.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:29pm
We used our fine motor skills to create shapes using the Geo boards. We also had to count the number of sides the shape had.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:26pm
In our Mastering Number sessions, we practised number bonds to five by partitioning cubes with our partner. We have been chanting our number bonds to five as we line up for dinner time! Test us on them so we can show you how great we are!
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:24pm
During our time in the Blue room, we were able to practise the phonics and helpful words that we have been learning in our Floppy's Phonics sessions.
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:11pm
Today, we learnt about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur in our whole school assembly. We learnt that during Yom Kippur Jewish people wear white and think about asking God for forgiveness. They also pray five special prayers during that special day.
Y1 Counting from a larger group
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:37am
The children in Year 1 enjoyed playing a game today where they took it in turns to count numbers of cubes from a larger group after rolling a dice. The winner was the person to pick up the last cube. The children had to think about which number they want to roll to be able to win.
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:35am
Today, the children in Year 1 learned how to log on to our computing program called Purple Mash. We discussed the importance of keeping passwords private. After we had logged on, the children were able to create their own avatar to represent them while online.
Date: 15th Sep 2026 @ 4:31pm
As part of our Mastering Number session today, we explored the rekenreks and discussed what we noticed about them. The children talked about the number of beads on each row and the number of different coloured beads on each row. They practised getting the rekenreks ready in the 'ready position'.
Date: 15th Sep 2026 @ 4:28pm
The children have worked hard today in the Blue Room. They have been focused on fine motor skills, letter formation, counting and making repeated patterns.
Date: 15th Sep 2026 @ 4:26pm
Children were given a variety of objects and were asked to sort them into as many different groups as they could think of. Some chose to sort them by colour, some chose to sort them by object type and some chose to sort them by size.
Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 3:26pm
During our time in the Blue Room, we found different ways to explore making repeated patterns.
Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 8:16am
In Music this week, we explored finding the pulse of a song. We marched around the room to Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book ensuring we kept in time with the pulse of the music.
Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 8:12am
In RE, Year 1 explored the Creation Story. We looked at how God created the animals and creatures on Earth. We used play dough to create a model of the animals and created masks on the animals.
Date: 24th Apr 2026 @ 1:09pm
KS1 visited Imagine That!
We explored the role play village, made magnets and snow in the art area, visited a science show all about bath bombs and made our own slime!
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:48pm
Year 1 have made posters for our display, all about Ash Wednesday!
